Monthly Archives: March 2018
A Tale of Two Amazons – Slog – The Stranger
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/03/21/25939850/a-tale-of-two-amazons
It’s super-hard for workers to block the circuits of finance, which are located not in real-time but in the future. Two things that have moved the world’s economy deeper and deeper into the future: financial assets and debt.
Sky-high prices of everything make US healthcare the world’s most expensive | US news | The Guardian
How vulture capitalists ate Toys ‘R’ Us
Atomos choreographer Wayne McGregor pushes the boundaries
The truth behind the story engulfing Canada’s Sikh politicians | National Observer
Why Gen X Isn’t Psyched for the ’90s Revival – Racked
https://www.racked.com/2018/3/13/17064842/gen-x-90s-revival
There’s another way of understanding revivals: as a form of historical research. I suspect this is rarely discussed because fashion’s connection to youth and femininity makes us overlook it as a form of knowledge and politics. If we re-imagine this fashion revival as an inquiry into the past, examining what it means to wear the ’90s then and now becomes a critical conversation. The fact that our clothes never became costumes can be an asset, helping us analyze how we left the gate open for some bad stuff to creep in, and how we did some things right without recognition. Most importantly, this knowledge can help us dismantle boundaries within and among generations.
Indigenous Advocates Excited by Funding to Preserve BC’s Oldest Languages | The Tyee
A Canadian University Is Looking for a Magic Studies Professor – VICE
English Words Borrowed From the Americas
Dozens of troubled trees in Beacon Hill Park to be removed
This is the greatest journalism of all time
Provacateur Chef’s Latest Experiment Touches Nerves About Race – Next City
Stress Management: Doing Progressive Muscle Relaxation | HealthLink BC
Guided Imagery Relaxation Techniques For Labor
Progressive Muscle Relaxation Techniques
English Words Borrowed From Arabic
Researchers Restore ‘Feeling’ to Lost Limbs—Kinda | WIRED
The Neonatal Window of Opportunity: Setting the Stage for Life-Long Host-Microbial Interaction and Immune Homeostasis | The Journal of Immunology
The Macro Influence of the Microbiome | The Journal of Immunology
Activities Guide: Enhancing & Practicing Executive Function Skills
Review: ‘Children of Blood and Bone,’ by Tomi Adeyemi – The Atlantic
The Wound in the Willows – Los Angeles Review of Books
Glory Bowl | Canadian Living
New Evidence Reveals Ancient Greeks Immediately Regretted Inventing Theater
https://www.theonion.com/new-evidence-reveals-ancient-greeks-immediately-regrett-1823641762
Brubaker added that several new findings suggest the ancient Greeks also lamented encouraging those prone to pondering life’s unanswerable questions out loud to call themselves “philosophers.”